The owner(s), occupant(s) and tenant(s) of any premises abutting any public street or roadway within the Township shall remove all snow, hail, sleet and ice from the full width of sidewalks abutting the respective premises as well as fire hydrants within 24 hours after the termination of any snowfall or accumulation of snow, hail, sleet or ice, whichever shall have occurred. In the event that the ice may be so frozen as to make removal impracticable, the owner(s), occupant(s) and tenant(s) of the abutting premises shall cause the sidewalk to be fairly covered with sand, ashes, sawdust, cinders or ice-melting product within 24 hours of the accumulation of such ice.
[Adopted 5-16-1994 by Ord. No. 528B-94; amended in its entirety 4-16-2015 by Ord. No. 12-15]
[Amended 4-4-2019 by Ord. No. 11-19]
No person, firm, corporation, owner, tenant or occupant of any premises abutting on any street shall throw, place or deposit any snow or ice into or upon any sidewalk or street in the Township. No person shall, except under the direction or with the consent of the Township, plow or otherwise place snow in the unimproved portion of the public right of way except in an area directly adjacent to their property. It is also the intent and purpose of this provision to prohibit any person from throwing, placing, plowing or depositing snow or ice which accumulates on private property so as to obstruct any fire hydrant in said Township.
The owners of any condominium and/or garden apartment complexes located within the Township shall remove all ice and snow from the sidewalks, fire hydrants, roadways and parking areas of such complexes within 12 hours of daylight after the same shall fall or be formed thereon.
All properties adjacent to Route 46 are subject to the same restrictions regarding the removal of snow as are all other properties located within the Township.
Any person or firm violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined $50 for the first, second and third offenses, and $100 for the fourth and subsequent offenses. Each and every forty-eight-hour period that such violations continue shall be considered a separate and distinct offense.
Upon the failure of the owner or tenant to remove or provide for the removal of such snow and ice, the Township may remove the same, and the costs thereof shall be chargeable and assessable against the lands abutting upon the public highways in the Township or such condominium or garden apartment complex from which the snow and ice is removed as follows:
A.
The officer or employee of the Township in charge of the removal thereof shall certify the costs thereof to the Township Council.
B.
The Township Council shall examine such certificate and, if found to be correct, shall cause such costs to be charged against such lands after affording the owner a reasonable opportunity to appear before the Township Council or its designated agent.
C.
The amount so charged shall thereupon become a lien or tax upon such real estate and be added and be a part of the taxes next to be levied and assessed thereon and enforced and collected with interest by the same officers and in the same manner as other taxes.